Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

Re:Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decr... by zahlman on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:05PM (#47341839)

> Many people don't have IDs and it is an onerous process to get one.

I have seen this constantly claimed, and never reasonably evidenced. It's also hard to believe the kind of American exceptionalism that supposedly causes these problems that everyone else can easily solve, despite an environment that is clearly heavily politically invested in solving it (because that also avoids the appearance of racism).

Meanwhile, American proponents of voter ID can readily find people including among the supposedly discriminated-against groups who will testify to the contrary.

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Re:Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decr... by CJefferson on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:38PM (#47344079)

Solving it in other countries often involved a standard id that everyone uses for many things, so it becomes a standard party of life. Many people in the US, from what I can tell, don't want that.

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Re:Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decr... by squeaky-clean on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:24PM (#47343075)

Under the text of the proposed SAVE Act, drivers licenses or state ID's wouldn't be enough to count as a voting ID.

In Canada a drivers license is enough to vote.

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Re:Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decr... by mkehrt on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:53PM (#47356180)

IDs cost money. How do people with no income get one if they don't have one? How do they get access to the necessary documents?

In any case, it's not on me to show that they shouldn't need ID. It's on the proponents of ID laws to do so, and they have utterly failed.

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